Simple Gnome Panel Applet in Python

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Tom Viner picture Tom Viner · May 23, 2011 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

When I'm on the train to work I connect my netbook to my Nexus One's wifi hotspot. As I go through a tunnel my phone obviously loses it's 3G connection and takes a while to re-establish once the train emerges. But the netbook wifi logo stays constant as it's still connected to the phone itself.

I've written a little python program that attempts to ping a server and thus decides if internet is available (feel free to suggest a method of detecting internet connection that would be either quicker or use less bandwidth as I am capped per month).

My question is: how can I create an applet for GNOME Panel 2.30.2 in Python, to graphically display this status, so I can decide when to continue clicking links and expecting internet to work.

I got this example with a panel button to work but would like an icon that changes depending on the situation.

I've used Python for a few years haven't but coded gnome before. I'm using the ubuntu desktop edition as my login rather than unity, on 10.04.

Answer

static_rtti picture static_rtti · May 31, 2011

Check out this simple applet I made. It has an icon that changes depending on events. Simply replace the logic with your logic and it should do the trick. Even better, it should be compatible with all freedesktop-compatible environments.

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